I am 50 and this is the first time I read about a 3” floppy.
You broke it...Now your Lotus 123 won’t work.
Ping!..........
"Appar Unem!"
You could put a camera in one of those, but then you couldn’t post it here.
NAND Flash is flipping capacity so fast it’s unreal.
They use to hand them out as business cards are trade shows...
I had a Roland electric piano from the 80s that came with a midi synthesizer with its own built-in floppy drive to record stuff on. The floppies were like 2.5”, so you couldn’t use them on anything else except other Roland machines.
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I remember having some friends over one night a while back. We were discussing old outdated technology, both hardware and software and telling tales of tech support nightmares.
There was a girl there who was amazed at the way we were discussing that stuff. Almost as if it were a religious thing.
Then I suddenly remembered something I had tucked away in a corner of my closet. I asked her if she wanted to see my 8 inch Shugart.
I’ve NEVER been slapped so hard in my life....
Huh, never heard of these. Although I did have a internal ZIP drive in my 97 Thinkpad flex bay (second hard drive, second battery, floppy disk, and even third party stuff like that ZIP drive). I think if you had a CD drive it had to go in there too, but don’t remember for sure.
This is the first I heard of it and I have been involved with pwesonal computing since the 70’s. I used to have a “proto laptop”, Zenith I think, that took little tiny floppies, like 2 inch or something. Sold them for decent $$ on ebay.
Looking back on it, floppies were pretty lousy. Low capacity, prone to failure. But it was all we had, so we put up with them.